Gallery Talk with Ghita Skali & Josefin Arnell
Prix de Rome
Gallery talks — Nov 1, 2023
Josefin Arnell and Ghita Skali were nominated for the Prix de Rome 2023. On November 1st, you will be given the opportunity to hear first-hand about the work they created for this edition of the Prix de Rome. They will speak about their practice and this specific work and will be available to answer any questions you might have.
- Price
- Museum ticket + € 3
- Location
- We meet at the info desk in the Entrance Hall
- Time
- Nov 1, 2023, 4 pm until 5 pm
- Main language
- Engels
- Admission
- Tickets
JOSEFIN ARNELL
(Ljusnedal, Sweden, 1984, lives and works in Amsterdam). Josefin Arnell’s primary medium is film, but she often diverges into physical disciplines including drawing, performance and installation art. She often works with actors without acting experience in her films, capturing the rawness of unattainable desire, perfectionism and control.
For the Prix de Rome 2023, Josefin Arnell is working with visitors and staff at the Amsterdam community centre De Witte Boei to create a film in which fantasy and fiction pierce through everyday life. In the context of housing shortages and welfare cuts, Arnell questions what it means to be a ‘good’ citizen.
GHITA SKALI
(Casablanca, Morocco, 1992, lives and works in Amsterdam). Ghita Skali has a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses installations, videos and interventions. Her work blends humor and critique, and reaches beyond the art world. With the work she made for the Prix de Rome, Ghita Skali criticizes the selection procedure of the art prizes and of the Prix de Rome in particular. Until mid-20th century, participants were required to pass an exam at the Rijksakademie (State Academy of Fine Arts) behind closed doors. The sequestered artists were receiving food and materials through hatches in the door. One such doors features in this work. To the artist, it symbolizes the ostensible appearance of equal opportunities behind art prizes, whereas this system is exclusionary and discriminatory.
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Ghita Skali for Prix de Rome 2023. Photo: Johannes Schwartz -
Josefin Arnell for Prix de Rome 2023. Photo: Johannes Schwartz -
Ghita Skali for Prix de Rome 2023. Photo: Johannes Schwartz -
Josefin Arnell for Prix de Rome 2023. Photo: Johannes Schwartz
About Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome is the pre-eminent incentive award for talented visual artists from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The aim of the Prix de Rome is to stimulate the development of highly talented artists and to boost their visibility, thereby ensuring that the visual art field remains topical. The Mondriaan Fund has organised and financed the award since 2012. The Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023 is being organised in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. An accompanying publication will also be produced.
More info: www.prixderome.nl
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